Taking a cursory view of the different European nations he regarded--the Spaniards as the only people possessed of "sufficient energy to struggle against foreign usurpation."

There was no time, however, for us to take more than a cursory view of these phenomena.

He then took a cursory view of the present state of the science and explained many of its elementary terms.

In a cursory view, a reader might have assumed the appearance of Mr. Potato Head simply meant the start of another Christmas advertising season.

Standing in the middle of the arena at that time there by degrees became apparent its real vastness, which a cursory view from the summit at noon-day was apt to obscure.

A cursory view will reveal tha...

If the best education is by example, then the lesson from a cursory view of Mr. Guterson's routine is one of baffling contradiction.

Looks like PayPal to a cursory view.

The edges were raw and jagged, covered with the second-skin material that seemed flimsy to his cursory view.

In this cursory and preliminary view, we have, meanwhile, reached our aim.